Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

106-110 (EVEN NOS) GEORGE STREET AND 32A CASTLE STREETLB28881

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
13/01/1966
Local Authority
Edinburgh
Planning Authority
Edinburgh
Burgh
Edinburgh
NGR
NT 24929 73899
Coordinates
324929, 673899

Description

Circa 1785; later alterations and additions. Large 3-storey classical corner tenement, with shops built out at corner, now converted to offices. Cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings (stonecleaned).

GEORGE STREET ELEVATION: 2 distinct 5-bay blocks. E block with modern polished granite shopfront (canted at corners); architraved windows, corniced at 1st floor; mutuled cornice at 2nd floor, and eaves cornice and blocking course to later 4th storey; upper floors framed by long and short quoins. W block with scabbled (formerly droved) ashlar; left bay with corniced architraved door to common stair (No 108) at ground, with 2-leaf panelled door and modern radiating fanlight, plain window; right bays with architraved windows, corniced at ground and 1st floor (as above); pilastered doorpiece to centre bay with glazed door and carved radiating fanlight; plain moulded eaves cornice; 3 bipartite copper clad box dormers.

CASTLE STREET ELEVATION: 4-storey irregular 6-bay, inner right bay with blind windows. Modern shopfront continues to 3 right bays; mid 19th century corniced 3-bay shop with canted angle to left, now sub-divided; top storey later, with gabled stack, eaves cornice and blocking course.

Timber sash and case windows; plate glass to E block, 12-pane to W. Ashlar coped skews; rendered stacks; grey slates.

INTERIOR: shops modernised. Common stair at No 108 gives access to upper floors. W block with bow-ended former Dining Rooms at each floor to rear W, with tripartite window; No 110 is main door flat with stair to basement; significantly altered, but panelled dados and (later) plaster panelled walls survive; 1st floor flat with panelled dados and later stair to 2nd floor, Corinthian pilastered sideboard recess; 2nd floor flat identical, with grey marble chimneypiece in former dining room, former drawing room subdivided, further stair to similar attic flat; with fluted chimneypiece.

RAILINGS: cast-iron spearhead railings to W (surviving) basement area, and pair of wrought-iron lamp standards to principal platt.

Statement of Special Interest

Sir Walter Scott lived on the 2nd floor of No 108 after his marriage. A Group with Nos 112-128 (even nos) George Street as a significant surviving part of the original fabric of Edinburgh's New Town, one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain.

References

Bibliography

Ainslie?s Map of 1780. A J Youngson THE MAKING OF CLASSICAL EDINBURGH (1966) pp91-3. Gifford, McWilliam and Walker EDINBURGH (1988) p306.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

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